The Leeds-Liverpool canal runs by the site, causing a southern boundary. Should this be bridged as a metaphor for TEDs inclusive nature or can this be utilised to keeping out social ‘undesirables’.
The brickwork of the existing carpark suggests an impressive enclosure opportunity, the windows that now do not face south or stand to gain direct sunlight may be blocked to create an illusion of a new location without the disturbances of another world. It will pay to observe how other large scale conversions to public buildings have been handled.
The immediate building to the site show the work of an industrial Leeds, these large expanses of former factory are currently billed to become new residential and offices to take Leeds in a new direction of a ‘knowledge’ and ‘creative’ economy.
The Viaduct across the West of the site is just such an industrial construction, illustrated in the Leeds renaissance plan as a future walkway (1) to try and connect the city. This has yet to commence.
(1) http://www.leedsrisingcity.org/#/eightprinciples/viaduct/
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